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Scoop with Giulia Morpurgo and Luca Casiraghi: Gigaclear and its lenders are hiring advisers as the fibre broadband builder seeks new debt funding bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

What links Google's Sundar Pichai and Richemont billionaire Johann Rupert? Both splashed out millions on a stake in London Spirit, valuing The Hundred team at £295m. My piece on the frenzy to invest in English cricket and why the tech CEOs went so big👇 bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Excl: RedBird is looking to sell its minority stake in IPL team Rajasthan Royals, as the US private equity firm seeks to cash in on the growing popularity of cricket’s most lucrative competition bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

Excl: Aston Martin is hiring advisers to look for ways to slash production costs as new CEO Adrian Hallmark becomes the latest to try to turn the ailing carmaker around. Other costs are also being cut: private jet flights are out bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

After the collapse of Britishvolt, another startup is having a go at making batteries in the UK. Coventry-based Volklec wants to avoid the mistakes of the failed venture bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

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Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought Wrexham AFC, a tiny Welsh football club, for about £2 million ($2.6 million) back in 2021. It’s now worth around £100 million trib.al/3OK047A

McLaren is taking a step closer to producing high-end sport utility vehicles and sedans as part of a turnaround plan trib.al/vkZ3oqi

Free staff meals have been cut, the balance sheet is in dire need of repair, and the roof leaks. If anyone understands what Jim Ratcliffe is going through at Manchester United, it’s Rachel Reeves. Get The Readout with Jamie Nimmo trib.al/rrRIHiE

Free staff meals have been cut, the balance sheet is in dire need of repair, and the roof leaks. If anyone understands what Jim Ratcliffe is going through at Manchester United, it’s Rachel Reeves. Get The Readout with Jamie Nimmo trib.al/FP4OiiE

Busy week for Jim Ratcliffe. First Man Utd and now this: his car company is recalling more than 7,000 Grenadier off-roaders in the US after doors flew open on some while in motion. Ineos will replace the door buttons after it failed to apply enough grease bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Labour's welfare cuts risk undermining one of its key goals: boosting electric vehicle sales. Motability accounts for 1 in 5 new car sales in the UK and is a big buyer of EVs. Any pullback will dent carmakers' hopes of hitting the government's targets bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Exc: Aston Martin's billionaire exec chairman Lawrence Stroll says he would be open to taking the struggling carmaker private if its valuation doesn't improve. His comments come as his consortium prepares to inject more funds 👇 bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

UK Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds on Bloomberg TV — says he believes 10% US tariffs on UK can be removed or reduced. ‘I believe they can’ — says he spoke to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer this morning — ‘the platform is definitely

British defence companies like Babcock are already hiring thousands of workers in anticipation of a spending boom - but can the 12,000 smaller firms cash in? Sabah Meddings and I dug into the sector bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg